Matthew Day

Contact Information
Background
I tend to find specific questions all-consuming at one moment and ontologically dull at another. This helps to explain why I've written about such disparate topics as:
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Evolutionary taxonomy, anti-essentialism, and the religion category;
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Jacobean natural philosophy, urban commerce, and the "science" of money;
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The peculiar collision between Biblical criticism and evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century;
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The medicalization of religio-political dissent in Georgian England;
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Household debt as a key component of class and capital after the Second World War
My primary areas of interest are modern political and social theory, broadly construed. I am chuffed to report that my book–No Bosses, No Gods: Marx, Engels, and the Twenty-first Century Study of Religion– will be published as part of De Gruyter's Religion & Reason series in late April or early May 2023. Professionally speaking, I have no idea what comes next.
I adore Oaxacan food, detest having my picture taken, and wish I'd learned Russian somewhere along the way. My wife and I have two sons and a modestly clever Golden Retriever named Duck. We spend our summers in Downeast Maine renovating a mid-nineteenth-century farmhouse and sailing the prickly waters of Cobscook Bay.
Recent Graduate Seminars
- Marx, Weber, Bourdieu
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The Landscapes of American Capitalism
Courses
Fall 2023
- REL3142: Religion, Self and Society
- REL3171: Topics in Ethics: Religion & Revolution (Honors)
Spring 2023
- REL3142: Religion, Self and Society
- REL3171: Topics in Ethics: Religion & Revolution